Selling in The New Millennium
Sales is one of the oldest professions. While much of sales remains the same, Social Media has had an impact on the way we communicate with our sales prospects, as well as giving us new tools to track sales activity and improve the close rate with data driven decisions.
There is a significant shift in the way people are buying, which means we must shift in kind with the way we are selling. The Internet has changed everything. Sales were driven in an old-school model based on ‘Cold Calls” and prospect interruptions. Now, we all use Google. Prospects identify all the competition, research, and come up with pros and cons lists and begin to form an opinion. An opinion either you can shape or your competition can. Studies have proven repeatedly that a buying decision is made before a salesperson is even in the conversation.
Sales professionals need to position themselves as the thought leader and industry expert. They need to be the ones influencing their prospects buying decisions and participating in their choice even before they are engaged. Sales professionals need identify who the decision makers are, what is important to them, and what they need to position the right solution.
People buy from people they Know, Like, and Trust. It is incumbent in this new era to ABC “Always Be Connecting”. The message is driven by an individual’s personal brand that is equal to or greater value than the name on the building outside.
Sales Training By Topic
Social Selling
• Clarity about why and how to develop your individual Social Selling approach.
• Clarity about how to develop Social Selling as a team to increase sales.
• Listening: Identifying what your prospect cares about and needs.
• Educating: Brand yourself and your company as thought leaders through a variety of content driven solutions that will bill you as a subject matter expert.
• Prospecting: Leveraging social media for networking, client warm referrals, and introductions.
• Positioning: Researching and gathering intelligence that can be used to influence the sale, then relating offline.
Rules of Engagement
Have you ever wondered what separates a top performing sales person from the rest of the pack?
• Top sales professionals know that the difference between good and great performance requires a set of disciplines and best practices that will drive you to new levels of success.
• In most cases, it’s because they apply many of these best practices in their daily routine.
These rules and/or actions are called the Rules of Engagement, and are Standard Operating Procedures that that have been cultivated from over 40 years of sales experience and relationships with top performers all over the world.
• Key Concepts and settings on LinkedIn to get the most out of it.
• Creating a Profile which will market, attract, and sell for you.
• Targeting prospects using the Advanced Search.
• How to best connect with people (and how not to).
• Use LinkedIn to market and promote you, your products / services, and your business.
• Using Groups effectively as an interaction and targeting tool.
• Usingrich/relevant content to help make you stand out more.
• Best practices.
SALES TRAINING BY INDUSTRY
Accounting
Associations
Auto
Banking
Entertainment
Food and Beverage
Financial
Healthcare
Hospitality
Insurance
Non-Profit
Real Estate
Retail
Sports
Technology
Scope of work: Listed below, are all of the training deliverables On the Ball will manage for the Company:
Set Goals
• Understand your business needs
• Determine how you will define success
• Use LinkedIn effectively
Create A Plan
• Generate Social Media awareness
• Educate and train sales reps
• Connect the dots between sales and marketing
Track Progress
• Measuring success on LinkedIn
• Uncover success stories
• Track and evaluate the impact on the business
Stay Motivated
• Reinforce adoption, engagement, and accountability
• Drive adoption through gamification
• Celebrate top social sales reps
Improve Results
• Recruit socially engaged reps
• Make Social Media part if the rep’s routine
• Leverage the right tools
Potential training topics
• Best Practices for Social Media Selling (LinkedIn)
• Goal Setting
• Rules of Engagement
Lead generation
• Targeting
• Territory management
• Networking / Securing referrals
• Maximizing Technology
Qualifying
• Probing
• Competitive Analysis
• Targeted Questioning
• Budget, authority, need
Discovery
• Buyer Styles
• Mirroring
• 5 Discovery Questions Categories
• Listening Skills
• Trust Building
Solution Development
• Presentation Skills
• Effective Proposal Writing
• Understanding the Complex Sale
• The Value Proposition
• Customer Focus
The Close
• Negotiation
• Building Trust
• Persuasion Techniques
• Gaining Agreement
• Winning the Complex Sale
Manage / Service
• Account Management
• Territory Management
• Leadership
• Up Selling & Cross Selling